Chapter 499

Find someone more talented than this kid Lu En?

Hard!

Hard as climbing the heavens!

At least,

in Sengoku's impression, this entire sea has never produced a genius who could stand shoulder-to-shoulder with a monster like Lu En.

Never heard of it!

Never before existed!

"Speaking of which."

"Brother Kong, he actually appointed this kid Lu En as a Marine Headquarters Rear Admiral just like that?"

"This is truly beyond imagination."

"Now, the entire Marine Headquarters must have been completely blown up by this news."

Sengoku could foresee it.

Marineford must be extremely lively right now.

A Marine Headquarters Rear Admiral only five years old has suddenly appeared out of nowhere…

Refreshing the record for the youngest Rear Admiral in Marine history!

A five-year-old Rear Admiral, no less!

This piece of news will inevitably stir up enormous upheaval throughout the entire Marine Headquarters.

"A five-year-old Rear Admiral…"

"If I hadn't heard it with my own ears, even I would find it hard to imagine such an absurd thing."

"It's just like a dream!"

Sengoku exclaimed in wonder again and again.

Even now, his mood still could not calm down.

He hadn't expected it either.

The moment Lu En graduated from the training camp, Fleet Admiral Kong directly broke protocol and promoted him to the youngest Headquarters Rear Admiral in history.

This is truly too astonishing!

"I suppose…"

"Even that fellow Zefa, he didn't see this coming either, did he?"

"Even though this kid Lu En is already outstanding enough. However, being broken-rank promoted to Headquarters Rear Admiral all at once — this really is too absurd."

Sengoku thought.

Just as he had thought.

On the other side,

Zefa, who had just learned the news, likewise wore a completely dumbfounded expression.

"Wh-what?!"

"This kid Lu En…"

"Actually became a Marine Headquarters Rear Admiral?"

"Fleet Admiral Kong, he broke protocol on the spot and promoted this kid Lu En to the position of Rear Admiral?"

"Real or fake?"

"A five-year-old Rear Admiral?"

Zefa was utterly dumbstruck.

This kid Lu En didn't pull some strings, did he?

A five-year-old Rear Admiral was actually born just like that?

He remembered.

The evaluation and profile he had drawn up for Lu En described him as extremely outstanding. But he didn't think that, based solely on that outstanding profile, this Fleet Admiral Kong would break protocol and promote Lu En to Headquarters Rear Admiral.

Clearly, this had nothing whatsoever to do with the intelligence on Lu En that he had submitted.

There must be some other reason that caused Kong to break protocol and promote Lu En to Headquarters Rear Admiral.

"Is it because of this kid Lu En capturing Whitebeard II?"

"Very likely!"

Zefa hit upon a key point.

He didn't doubt it in the slightest.

Whether the five-year-old Lu En possessed the strength of a Marine Headquarters Rear Admiral.

After all.

The current Lu En is already a publicly recognized Vice Admiral-level combatant!

A top-tier powerhouse across the seas!

Rear Admiral-level combat strength?

That would simply be looking down on Lu En!

But…

Strength is strength,

record is record,

seniority is seniority.

Apart from strength, what other qualifications does Lu En have to serve as Headquarters Rear Admiral?

After thinking it over, the only thing Master Zefa could come up with was that Lu En had captured a large number of pirates recently and earned a great many merits.

Only this could explain,

why Kong, the Fleet Admiral, had, the moment Lu En graduated, immediately broken precedent and promoted him to Headquarters Rear Admiral.

Such an example could truly be called unprecedented!

"Or perhaps…"

"Fleet Admiral Kong was also worried that this kid Lu En would grow resentful of the Marines over the matter of his appointment. That's why Fleet Admiral Kong had no choice but to give Lu En a rank he would be satisfied with?"

For a moment, Master Zefa thought of many things.

But no matter what,

he still could not arrive at any clear conclusion.

In any case.

The matter of Lu En being appointed Headquarters Rear Admiral was already a done deal.

An established fact!

No one could change it.

So long as Lu En did not commit any grave error, no one could strip him of his illustrious identity as a Headquarters Rear Admiral.

"The youngest Headquarters Rear Admiral in history…"

"has just been born!"

"And he's still my student!"

"Good! Wonderful!"

Master Zefa could not help but let out a great laugh.

That among his own students there could appear such a terrifying, world-shaking monster prodigy—

as their teacher, he naturally felt deeply gratified and proud.

"Worthy indeed of being the most powerful monster student among all the cadets I have ever taught!"

"Beautifully done!"

Master Zefa was all smiles.

Compared to that disappointing student of his, Huang Yuan…

when all was said and done,

Master Zefa preferred someone like Lu En!

A peerless genius of the hardworking type!

……

At the same time.